Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.
Steven JohnsonTags: history ideas internet innovation
Chance favors the connected mind.
Steven JohnsonTags: insightful ideas internet innovation
Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.
Steven JohnsonTags: history self-improvement innovation hobbies
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
Steven JohnsonTags: insightful ideas innovation
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old
Peter F. DruckerTags: work old ideas innovation project new
Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?
Frank HerbertTags: bureaucracy innovation
The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single road leads from city down to jungle; the prisoner is merely locked out of the city. Escape is at his option; he may flee as far through the jungle as he sees fit: the entire continent is at his disposal. But no prisoner ever ventures far from the gate; and, when his presence is required, it is only necessary to unlock the gate and call his name.
Jack VanceTags: prison innovation jail
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
Piero ScaruffiTags: madness creation innovation
Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, diesen nicht das Feld zu räumen.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTags: bravery thinkers innovation support german thinking-with-a-great-mind ermutigung mut torheit vordenker
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade…. The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance. – T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T.E. LawrenceTags: military innovation discipline
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